Pages

Friday, October 26, 2012

The Mocking Generation

The Mocking Generation 'Be not decieved - God is not mocked' Galatains 6:7

The age in which we live is filled
with those who mock God.They mock what
they hate.Yes, they do hate God.They may not say, ‘I hate God Almighty.’However, God is the ultimate authority, and they
hate authority and the rules authority puts into place.They seek to change authority to suit their
own whims regarding right and wrong. In effect, they invent a lesser god to
suit the image of the god their rebellious hearts desire. To the Mocking
Generation it is hateful that God does not change.To the Believer it is comforting that God is
the solid rock that does not change.

The Mocking Generation mocks God in at
least three ways.

Belittle Him as ‘out of touch’, ‘ineffective’,
‘uncaring’, and ‘absent’.

Give themselves the power and
authority to change the image and message of God.

In other words, they put God down, and
they put themselves up.

They deny the existence of God
altogether, ignoring the evidence provided by the ‘blinking neon light’ of
creation.

Christians know:

It mocks God to murder.

It mocks God to tear the body of an
unborn child to pieces.

It mocks God to lie.

It mocks God to condone and encourage free
sex.

It mocks God to covet things belonging
to other people.

It mocks God to steal – whether it is
stealing from an individual or a group in the form of more taxes on the
‘rich’.

It mocks God to suggest any God other
than the Almighty and Most High God of the Bible is god.

It mocks God to do something obviously
wrong saying ‘the end justifies the means’.

It mocks God to love possessions and
power more than God.

It mocks God to put anything above Him
in importance.

It mocks God when someone attempts to
change God’s words to suit social whims.

It mocks God when people set
themselves up above God as the ultimate authority.

It mocks God when people reject the reality
of God when every aspect of creation reveals the glory of God.

It mocks God to affirm as right what
God condemns as wrong.

It mocks God to call the truth hate
speech!

It mocks God to avoid or deny the
truth altogether in order to ‘get along’ with those who reject the truth.

It mocks God to tolerate sin in the
name of peaceful co-existence.

There are many people in the Mocking
Generation who answer to no one except their own core desires.And what they desire above everything else is
‘self-indulgence’.If they want to do it
they will do it.If they want to have
something they will obtain it by whatever means necessary.They have set themselves up as the standard
by which they will live, and they do not concede any authority over their lives
to even God Almighty.

There are those in the Mocking
Generation who are attempting to keep one foot firmly in both camps.They can agree with some of the things the
Mocking Generation affirms, but they still cling to some of the things Biblical
morality asserts.God Himself has some
choice words to say about these people.‘So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will
spue thee out of my mouth.’ (Revelation 3:16)

To put it bluntly, these people make
God vomit.

Remember:

The Mocking Generation is made up of
all ages, genders, and demographics.

The Mocking Generation is global.

There are many millions of people in
my own country who belong to the Mocking Generation.

The Mocking Generation mocks
traditional morals and values.

The Mocking Generation mocks God most
of all.

The Mocking Generation will not get
away with disrespect to God on a permanent basis.

The Mocking Generation denies ‘scripture
alone’ as all that is necessary to know God.

The Mocking Generation denies ‘faith
alone’ and the only means of salvation.

The Mocking Generation is sly.They don’t approach the world saying, ‘I am
here to mock God and break all the commandments.’Instead the often come in with some measure
of obvious truths contaminated with a measure of subtle lies.A simple example is, ‘Of course there is a
god, but god has many names.’These
members of the Mocking Generation have just equated God Almighty with all the
false gods of the world.The mockers are
not hard to spot if you have any idea of what God has to say about false
gods.Unfortunately, even though this is
such an obvious mockery of God Almighty many are falling for this lie.Even some who still call themselves Christian
are spouting this heresy.The mockers
deny there is one mediator between God and man.They claim there are many paths leading to
heaven.Well, there are many paths all
leading to somewhere – but it definitely is not heaven.Honestly, there are really only two
paths.One leads to God.The other leads to hell.The road to hell has a lot of little roads
all leading to the big road that leads to hell.The only way to escape hell is to turn around and go the opposite
direction.Thank God that He makes it
very clear that there is one way to heaven through Jesus Christ.

There are some Christians who are so
far from God they appear to belong to the Mocking Generation.In the Old Testament the nephew of Abraham
was such a man.Lot had joined with the ungodly.Each Christian should continually be taking
heed to his/her personal actions.

The Mocking Generation knows OF
God.They can’t help it because God is
apparent in creation just as a builder is apparent in what he builds or an artist
is apparent in paintings.However, they
do not KNOW God any more than I know George Washington.I know OF him by the historical record of his
actions.But I obviously don’t actually
know the man.Sadly that is the
situation with so many people who claim to know God.They know about Him, but they haven’t made a
personal acquaintance.

No one knows how long God’s mercy will
continue for an individual or nation.The motto of the Christian with the heart of an Evangelist should be
‘one human being at a time’.Focus on
pointing one person at a time to Jesus Christ.That person would be the one who God puts in front of you.Pray for the people God places on your mind.Pray for the lost to be saved.The direction or the tide of an individual is
turned when he/she accepts the Word of God as true and turns to walk in the
opposite direction of their old life.Through that one person, some of their family and friends will probably also
turn.Through families turning to God
churches grow.Outreaches grow.More individuals turn to God through Jesus
Christ.It DOES make a difference.It makes a difference to that person.Every individual makes a difference to the
world.

You make a difference.

Take Micah 6:8 to heart.

It says, ‘He hath shewed thee, O man, what is
good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love
mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?’To walk humbly with God does require obedience to God’s instructions in
your personal actions.Through obedience
you grow to love mercy.You also do
justly because in doing the things God says to do, you do justly.

Christian, if you follow these
instructions to do justly, love mercy, and walk humbly with God you are
providing yourself with evidence that you are truly a born again Christian.Salvation is by faith alone.

In Acts Chapter Four Peter speaks to
the Mocking Generation of that day which included the high priest and his kindred.These were the very ones instrumental in
crucifying Jesus.They inquired of Peter
regarding how he was able to do miracles.He replied:

Be it known unto you all, and to all
the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye
crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here
before you whole.

(11) This is the stone which was set
at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner.

(12) Neither is there salvation in any
other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we
must be saved.’

The counter weight to the Mocking
Generation is Jesus Christ.The duty of
each believer is simply to say as Peter said, ‘Jesus alone has power to save.’

The precious hymn ‘All Hail the Power
of Jesus Name’ should be sung like a triumphant march.